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Polyglot is a podcast for middle and late career developers. It features more technical discussions of higher-level language concepts and software patterns.

Polyglot


    • Mar 30, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 38m AVG DURATION
    • 56 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Polyglot

    Scaling the DevOps Career Ladder with Eran Bibi

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 37:51 Transcription Available


    Eran Bibi is is a Founder, CPO, and DevOps Engineer at Firefly, a Cloud Asset Management solution that enables DevOps and SRE teams to rediscover their entire cloud footprint, understand which parts of it are codified vs. unmanaged, detect drifts to prevent service failures, and manage a single inventory of all their cloud resources across Multi-cloud, and Kubernetes deployments.In this episode, Eran Bibi talks with host Aaron Bassett about making the switch into DevOps, his career transitions from Individual Contributor (IC) to management and back to IC again, then taking a Director position, and eventually founding his own company.Links:Firefly (Twitter | LinkedIn)Eran Bibi: Twitter | LinkedInDo you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!Give us a follow: @PolyglotShow

    The Pull Request Paradox with Yishai Beeri

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022 32:45 Transcription Available


    Yishai Beeri is the CTO of Software Delivery Intelligence startup, LinearB. Yishai likes to solve problems, and that's why he is so fascinated with programming when he first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless. He made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur. In 2014, he joined the CTO office of a fast-moving cloud security startup, which was later acquired by a networking giant. At this startup, he also met Ori and Dan, now co-founders of LinearB. He joined them shortly after the company was established, in order to get back to what he loves most about engineering: solving exciting challenges.In this episode, Yishai talks with host Ben Greenberg about the paradox of pull requests.Links:LinearB (Twitter | LinkedIn)Yishai Beeri: Twitter | LinkedInThe Pull Request Paradox: Merge Faster By Promoting Your PR Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!Give us a follow: @PolyglotShow 

    High Stakes and High Stacks with Or Weis

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 44:44 Transcription Available


    Or Weis is a Founder, CEO, and serial entrepreneur. His latest venture Permit.io has just raised a $6 million seed funding round.In this episode, Or talks with host, Aaron Bassett about working in Intelligence Corps in the military and focusing on development around cybersecurity, how when building anything significant in the world, if it has actual impact, it requires a lot of effort, and how as an entrepreneur, it's always great to create products in which you have empathy for your users. Understand your users.Links:Permit.io (Twitter | LinkedIn)Or Weis: Twitter | LinkedInDo you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!Give us a follow: @PolyglotShow

    Minimum Viable Security – Start Small, Then Iterate with David Melamed

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 36:39 Transcription Available


    David Melamed is one of five co-founders and the CTO at Jit, the continuous security platform for developers. He was born in France and holds a Ph.D. in bioinformatics. Professionally, he has been working for the past 20 years as a full-stack engineer, as a CTO, and as a technical evangelist mostly in cloud and, in particular, in cloud security. He is very curious and likes knowledge-sharing and empowering other people. In this episode, David talks with host, Kirk Haines, about frictions between developers and security engineers because security is mostly an afterthought, the concept of minimum viable security (MVS), and really common things that people forget to think about when they are building their applications but that are very easy things to fix. Links:Jit (Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook)David Melamed: Twitter | LinkedIn | GitHubDo you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!

    Open Source From Day 1 – Make Your Repo Shine with Eyar Zilberman

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2022 30:34 Transcription Available


    Eyar Zilberman is a co-founder and CPO at Datree. Datree is a CLI tool that supports Kubernetes admins in their roles by preventing developers from making errors in Kubernetes configurations that can cause clusters to fail in production.In law school, Eyar researched open-source licensing, fell in love with the technology, and became active in the development community. He has always been fascinated by the concept of open source and how it enables developers of all expertise levels to build applications and automate processes. In this episode, Eyar talks about why people are creating open-source projects, the reason building in the open for a company makes sense from day one, and why stars, licenses, READMEs, and tags on GitHub projects are important. Links:DatreeFollow Datree on TwitterDocsEyar Zilberman: Twitter | LinkedIn | GitHub | Dev.toKubernetes Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!Give us a follow: @PolyglotShow

    Tangible Goals – Addressing The Why of Things with Nočnica Fee

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2022 35:40 Transcription Available


    Aisha Blake talks to Developer Advocate at New Relic, Nočnica Fee, about how the technical field is a 50/50 split between people writing code and people doing a thing often overlooked: operations, and in order to learn a skill, you first have to understand all the individual components of that skill. You should always have some tangible goal you're trying to get to, and changing strategies to get there along the way is a-okay!Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!Give us a follow: @PolyglotShow

    Giving 100% – Working Towards Shared Goals with Ryan Bahan

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2022 35:14 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Aaron Bassett, talks to Software Dev at Shopify and Turing School alum, Ryan Bahan about being comfortable being uncomfortable while figuring out what error messages mean, the application process when applying to a bootcamp and belonging to a post-pandemic remote cohort, and making important (& fun!) design decisions.Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!Give us a follow: @PolyglotShow

    Why Does The Business Care? with Michael Heap

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2022 24:34 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Ali Diamond, chats with Director of Developer Experience at Kong, Michael Heap, about transitioning from coding to managing and building a DevRel team up to around 45 people. It wasn't his technical skills, ability to present, or charming wit that made him successful, but it was the fact that he focused on the question, “why does the business care?”Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!

    Software is Built by People with Ulrich Sossou

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2022 29:55 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Ben Greenberg, and Engineering Manager at Orbit, Ulrich Sossou, talk about building diverse, dynamic software engineering teams at really fast-growing startup businesses around the world. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!

    Building and Growing Remote Teams with Ivy Evans

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2022 29:17


    Relicans host, Aisha Blake talks to Startup Founder and Ethical Hacker, Ivy Evans about building and growing remote teams, the decisions that she makes as a technical founder, as well as what she delegates to members of her organization as she's building something new.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!

    Programming = Poetry, Art, and Music with Chael Wright-Munn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2022 45:06 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Kirk Haines, talks to former Relican, Chael Wright-Munn, about how programming is just as human as art, and poetry, and music where you're following certain rules and certain conventions to create something that didn't exist before, making habits and systems versus trying to keep things in your head, and how she feels about the Rust programming language compared to other languages.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!

    Writing Documentation and Caring About Developer Mental Health with Lorna Mitchell

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2022 32:46


    Relicans host, Ben Greenberg, talks to Developer Evangelist, Lorna Mitchell, about developer burnout, writing technical documentation, and open-source culture and what it can bring into our working cultures and docs portals.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!

    Creating Cool Content – It's the Jam(stack) with James Q. Quick

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2022 26:42 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Ali Diamond, talks to Staff Developer Advocate at PlanetScale, James Q. Quick, about recently hitting 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, creating edgier videos that provide value but still get people's attention, and how he repurposes content by pointing people back to it in the newer videos he makes.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Developer Avocados – Creating Culture Over Team with Alex Lakatos

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2021 50:51 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Aaron Bassett, talks to Alex Lakatos about creating a developer relations culture instead of creating a team, Grant for the Web: a fund to boost open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation in Web Monetization, and being 1/2 of the Developer Avocados Weekly Newsletter and working in DevRel in general!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Front-End Mastery – Blending The Worlds of Teaching and Tech with Steve Kinney

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2021 33:08 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Lauren Lee, talks to Front-End Architect at Temporal, Steve Kinney, about being drawn toward front-end engineering and blending the two worlds of teaching and tech.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Engineering Management and Teaching Computer Science Education with Dave Bock

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2021 45:20 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Aaron Bassett interviews Dave Bock about being a developer who made the jump into engineering management fairly quickly, running a non-profit for K-12 computer science education students, and his belief that as you rise in your career, it's often not about having deeper and deeper skills. At some point, it's about having wider skills, even if they're not as deep.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Dreaming and Breaking Molds – Establishing Best Practices with Scott Haines

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 34:25 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Lauren Lee, talks to Senior Principal Engineer at Twilio, Scott Haines, about having a passion for distributed systems and event-based architectures, being a Databricks Beacon, and playing a critical role in establishing best practices for other emerging insights and analytics products in technology.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Appropriate, Correct, Robust, Usable, Maintainable, and Efficient (ACRUMEN) with Dave Aronson

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 43:33 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Kirk Haines, talks to Software Development Consultant, Dave Aronson about quality software and how you assess quality in software and his ACRUMEN conference talk, which stands for: stands for the idea that software should be Appropriate, Correct, Robust, Usable, Maintainable, and Efficient. (The N stands for Nothing. He just tucked that on to make a real word!)Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Magikcraft – Teaching Kids to Program Using Minecraft with Joshua Wulf

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2021 40:54 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Ali Diamond talks to Developer Advocate at Camunda, Josh Wulf, about becoming a self-taught programmer at the age of nine, accidentally finding himself in a mentoring position teaching kids how to program in Minecraft, and then creating Magikcraft, which allows people to write JavaScript code in your browser and then run the code on a multiplayer server.  Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Functional Pivoting – Tackling Ruby, Haskell, and Rust Playgrounds with Rein Henrichs

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2021 37:38 Transcription Available


    Director of Developer Relations at New Relic, Jonan Scheffler, talks to Principal Software Engineer, Rein Henrichs, about working in Ruby and pivoting to Haskell, preferring functional programming and transitioning to Rust, and gives some awesome resources and recommendations if you might be into the same sort of thing along your own way.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Communication Counts – Leading a New Generation of Developers with Chris Mar

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021 40:42 Transcription Available


    Relicans host Kirk Haines talks to Custom Ink's, Chris Mar about building an architecture practice, having a responsibility to give back to the engineers that are beginning in their careers and helping them grow in leadership roles, and why as a leader, it is imperative that you model positive behavior.Chris and Kirk even dive into a little crypto chat, and discuss and break down things like the blockchain and NFTs in simpler terms.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Switching Spaces – Building Cohesive Rooms with Autumn Crossan

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 25:48 Transcription Available


    Relicans host Ali Diamond talks to Senior Developer at Kyruus, Autumn Crossan, about encouraging and helping developers to get started and achieve their full potential by enabling them to do cool stuff they want to do, making business's workforce work better, and doing code reviews + giving helpful feedback.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    An Epic, Excellent, Eclectic Episode with Kiran Oliver

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2021 37:13 Transcription Available


    Relicans host Aaron Bassett talks to Technical Community Builder with Camunda, Kiran Oliver, about giving The Diana Initiative keynote this year on how to pick yourself up when you've been down.They also talk about how to get started contributing to Kubernetes, being neurodivergent, and making webcomics and candlesticks with their wife!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Prototypal Pragmatism – Designing Patterns for Progress with William Shepherd

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 36:09 Transcription Available


    Relicans Director of DevRel, Jonan Scheffler talks to to Software Engineer and Serial Entrepreneur William Shepherd about how he's loving life working in DevRel for OneSignal, his love of Typescript, how learning design patterns is integral as a dev, and his piece of advice to others? Don't focus on trends. You don't need to know everything.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Buildpacks and Paketo with Ram Iyengar

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 38:22 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Aaron Bassett talks to Developer Advocate at Cloud Foundry Foundation, Ram Iyengar, about Buildpacks, which transform your application source code into images that can run on any cloud.The Paketo project provides production-ready buildpacks for the most popular languages and frameworks.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Breaking Up Rails Monoliths and Contact-Driven API Development with Dmitry Pashkevich

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2021 38:14 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Rachael Wright-Munn talks to Application Architect at Calendly, Dmitry Pashkevich, about his experiences breaking up a Rails Monolith and his recent talk about "Contract-Driven API Development.”Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Data Is Valuable with Aaron Marks

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021 38:28 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Rachael Wright-Munn talks to Senior Software Engineer, Aaron Marks, about analyzing data and making data make sense, teaching data analytics, and even accidentally automating himself out of a job!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Code in Color with William Shepherd

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021 38:04 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Kirk Haines talks to Software Engineer and Serial Entrepreneur William Shepherd about traveling abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic, working remotely, and doing outreach to show others in the Black community that tech exists that they can also be a part of it. As William puts it, “The first step in understanding that you can do something is to know that something exists.”Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Ruthless Prioritization with Thiago Araujo

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2021 53:13 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Rachael Wright-Munn talks to Thiago Araujo about hexdevs, his company, where he takes developers and helps them grow into capable professional software engineers, building things that help people, and risk mitigation.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    What Is Developer Experience and Why Should We Care? with Deepu K Sasidharan

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2021 43:52 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Aaron Bassett, talks to open-source aficionado, technology advocate, co-lead of JHipster, creator of KDash and JDL Studio, and author, Deepu K Sasidharan, about what is developer experience and we we should care.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    From FastAPI to Rust with Dylan Anthony

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2021 44:58


    Relicans host, Aaron Bassett, talks to Senior Fullstack Software Engineer at Rigetti, Dylan Anthony, about how quality is core to everything they do. Their goal is to make all the software in the world better, faster, and less frustrating to users which is why they talk about switching from FastAPI to Rust!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Modern Front-End Developent For Rails with Noel Rappin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 39:29 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Kirk Haines talks to Noel Rappin about the new book he has coming out: “Modern Front-End Development for Rails,” which is in part about what is interesting about Hotwire, Stimulus, and Turbo and what they bring to the table that's different than what people might be used to right now when it comes to web development, and talks about writing technical books for close to 20 years. Noel says, “It's a lot of time that goes into something that you can't control. You can't control what the world's going to be like when you put it out. You can't control whether people are still going to be interested in it. You can't control whether something's going to make it obsolete two weeks after it comes out.”This is why he's also started playing around with releasing newsletters like buttondown.email/noelrap.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Stepping In, Contributing, and Reveling in Open Source with Matthew Draper

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2021 38:24 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Rachael Wright-Munn interviews Principal Engineer at Buildkite as well as a long-time contributor to Ruby on Rails and a member of the Rails Core team, Matthew Draper.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: [@PolyglotShow](https://twitter.com/PolyglotShow).

    Software Architecture: Different vs Wrong with Casey Dement

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 45:56 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Rachael Wright-Munn talks to Chief Architect at at Rex, Casey Dement, about his experience with software architecture, it's long-term implications, and what it means to be a software architect. Casey says, “If you can't tell the difference between different and wrong, you can't be a software architect. You just can't do the job.”Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    The Misconceptions About Polyglot Programming with Mirek Sedzinski

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 38:42 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Aaron Bassett talks to Solution Architect, Developer at Oracle, Mirek Sedzinski about his blog post The Misconceptions About Polyglot Programming, which can be found over on Dev.to.Mirek's conclusion is the following: “Of course one can learn how to operate any database in the world. But it requires significant effort and time. Each new database brings new tools, new concepts and tons of documentation...Whenever possible stay with one generic database to handle most of the traffic. Add new databases only to handle very specific workloads and only when really necessary.” What are YOUR thoughts, Polyglots?Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Doing DevRel Before DevRel Was Cool with Jay Gordon

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2021 44:07 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Ali Diamond, talks to Microsoft Cloud Advocate, Jay Gordon, about podcasting, how he got into doing DevRel before doing DevRel was “a thing,” and creating a brand that people remember.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Slaying Dragons – Inside A Dark Room with Amir Rajan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 60:39 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Rachael Wright-Munn talks to full-time indie game developer and creator of A Dark Room iOS, Amir Rajan. This RPG conquered the world and took over the Number 1 spot in the App Store, and placed in the Top 10 paid apps across 70 countries. Amir is also the CEO of DragonRuby LLP, creators of DragonRuby Game Toolkit and RubyMotion.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Birthing Unicorns – Growing Companies and Developers with Heather Wilde

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2021 42:35 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Kirk Haines interviews theDifference Consulting's Digital Solutions Lead Heather Wilde about writing her book, “Birth of a Unicorn: Six Basic Steps to Success”, the right combination of ingredients that goes into companies that manage to scale successfully, and playing around with GPT-3.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Transpilers and Teaching with Cameron Dutro

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2021 35:52 Transcription Available


    Relicans host, Ali Diamond asks Quip Software Engineer, Cameron Dutro to explain Kubernetes and Docker to her like she's five, gets his take on computer science and engineering education, and has him explain how being a teacher has made him a better co-worker.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Living in Ruby-Land and Rebuilding Rails with Noah Gibbs

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 43:05 Transcription Available


    Kirk Haines interviews writer and teacher on Software Development Noah Gibbs about sharing his code with people by writing a book: Rebuilding Rails, a book about understanding Ruby web frameworks by building your own, structured like Rails. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters:@PolyglotShow.

    The Importance of Being Trustworthy with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2021 40:46 Transcription Available


    Aisha Blake interviews Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, Board Director of The Rust Foundation, and Lead Editor of the This Week in Rust newsletter, Nell Shamrell-Harrington about the patterns and systems that we all use to write software effectively.She also talks about her involvement in The Rust Foundation, community, and how Rust is infiltrating the gaming community and web development (in an awesome way)!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters:@PolyglotShow.

    Coffee & Community – Building with Intention with Bekah Hawrot Weigel

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 35:28 Transcription Available


    Jonan Scheffler interviews Creator and Maintainer Bekah Hawrot Weigel about Virtual Coffee, a community of developers who value and prioritize supporting one another. They host weekly coffee chats, member events, and even run a podcast!Bekah and Dan Ott know that growth comes at all levels and that no matter what stage of the developer journey you're on, you can teach and learn. Their twice-weekly live coffees with devs at all stages of their journeys has grown into an online community that mentors, creates educational content, and provides a safe community for free!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Thought Leaders & Machetes – Soloing The Corporate Jungle with Mike Perham

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 29:24 Transcription Available


    Jonan Scheffler interviews Mike Perham of Contributed Systems about his work on Sidekiq: a framework for building and executing background jobs.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters:@PolyglotShow.

    Nuances, Opinions, and Phenomenons with Postmodern

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 44:56 Transcription Available


    As a beacon in the Ruby community, Postmodern talks to Relicans host Kirk Haines about being in said community circa 2008, and the myriad of tools, libraries, and projects he's created over the years.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters:@PolyglotShow.

    Going Spec Deep with Laurie Barth

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2021 38:07 Transcription Available


    Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, Laurie Barth, talks to Relicans host Aisha Blake about approaching individual languages and/or frameworks in varied and interesting ways, learning things (going spec deep) because they're interesting to her (i.e. Rust) and that when picking a new language to learn, the community most definitely matters.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters:@PolyglotShow.

    Retreat and Delete to Write Better Code with Corey Haines

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2021 72:37 Transcription Available


    Cat aficionado and author of Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design, Corey Haines talks to Relicans Host Rachael Wright-Munn about co-creating the Coderetreat Workshop and spreading his coding knowledge and experience in exchange for a couch to crash on.Corey and Chael nerd out on a plethora of coding chit-chat, thoughts, opinions, and concepts. Enjoy!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: [@PolyglotShow](https://twitter.com/PolyglotShow).

    Pay Equity and Death Stacks: Forestalling The Revolution with Zee Spencer

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2021 35:04 Transcription Available


    Co-owner of Cohere, Engineering Executive, and Parallel Entrepreneur, Zee Spencer, talks with Relican's Host, Jonan Scheffler, about working to solve hard problems like solving pay inequity and making sure that companies are compensating people in a way that allows them to live securely socioeconomically and structuring systems where people are psychologically safe and supported emotionally by using the Cynefin model/framework.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Better Than Zero with Sarah Shook

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 34:53 Transcription Available


    Web dev and bootcamper Sarah Shook, talks with Relicans host Kirk Haines, about pulling double duty as a working parent and a homeschooling parent, the art of learning, and being a part of the Twitterverse and social media-ing in general.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Mastering Programming Languages and Productivity with Loc Nguyen

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2021 26:08 Transcription Available


    Loc Nguyen, full-stack developer at Productify talks with Relicans host Ali Diamond, about learning processes and what has allowed him to be able to master various programming languages, what is currently missing in developer education, and things he does personally to be the most productive developer he can be.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters:@PolyglotShow.

    Computers on Wheels – Working on Self-Driving Cars with Dr. Mahmood Hikmet

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2021 50:17 Transcription Available


    Dr. Mahmood Hikmet, Head of Research and Development at Ohmio and HMI Technologies, is currently tasked with overseeing and synchronizing research and development activity for autonomous vehicles. He talks to Relicans host, Rachael Wright-Munn about what that entails.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

    Making Creative Connections and Maintaining Mental Health with Stephon Parker

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 37:31 Transcription Available


    Stephon Parker of Formstack talks to host, Aaron Bassett, about the difference between leadership and management, learning how to say no, the importance of maintaining creative connections with your team, and prioritizing your own mental health – ESPECIALLY now, more than ever, during the pandemic. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

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